[Soekris] Installing SuSE 10.2 on laptop for 4801

[william estrada]

Eric,

   This sounds like a configuration problem between grub and your terminal
program.  Read this:

   http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Serial-terminal.html

   The boot problem is not with grub or the Soekris bios.  It is how you have
the kernel boot configuration.  The 'root=/dev/xxx' option is not correct
for your hardware configuration.  First, is your hard drive defines as primary
or secondary?  Which partition is the OS installed?

   I have limited experience with SuSE, so I can't say which parm would work
for your system.  In Fedora, it would be like /dev/hda1 for the primary disk,
first partition.

   Your close to getting it running.  Have you tried to boot this disk on another
system??  This could give you some helpful information.

William Estrada
MrUmunhum at popdial.com
Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( 64.124.13.3 )



Eric Knudstrup wrote:
> Quoting william estrada <MrUmunhum at popdial.com>:
>> You can test boot options by hitting 'ESC' and go interactive with grub.
> 
> One problem I'm having is that the grub boot screen doesn't show up 
> right.  I get a a square of garbage characters and no text.
> 
> Eric
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